What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew,

coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal, My Daily Audio Diary,

made public for the world, where I talk about the biggest wins, losses,

learnings, and lessons behind the scenes at Morning Brew.

And today I'm talking about while we all suck at receiving feedback.

Let's hop into it. So I'm going to tell two quick stories and then I'm going to talk about why these stories matter.

As I was saying a minute ago I interviewed Amanda Gets on my CMO series.

For you founders, journal listeners who don't know kind of the other series that I do,

it's a bi-weekly CMO series where I interview some of the smartest marketers in the world about the strategies

that they deploy to do their jobs so incredibly well.

Amanda was the VP of marketing at the NOT, which is the go-to destination around content and resources for weddings,

but she recently left the Not to be a part-time CMO of a company called TLQ and then also a part-time

founder of a CBD business called House of Wies. And she to make the announcement in addition to

announcing it on Twitter which where she's built up a massive following of 25,000 plus

followers she posted her first YouTube video.

And she posted this YouTube video,

I think it was about five minutes long,

where she shared the change from leaving the knot

to the company she's starting,

being a part-time CMO, how she's able to kind of get the best of both worlds

and be a part-time CMO and run a business.

But the important thing from that video that stuck with me but also that she mentioned

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